Will of Mary Thompson

Dated 16 Jun 1884


Last Will & Testament of
MARY THOMPSON dec'd
Probated Jan. Term 1885
Recorded Jan. 23, 1885
ZACH WATKINS clerk

I, MARY THOMPSON being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking and annulling all other wills by me heretofore at anytime made -

Item 1st, I direct that all my just debts and my burial expenses be paid by my Executor as soon after my death as may be out of the first money coming into his hands as such Executor -

Item 2nd, I give to my brother MOSES THOMPSON on the terms and conditions following all the real estate I own or of which I am seized and possessed consisting of two parcels or tracts of land in the 22nd civil district of Rutherford County Tennessee the first tract being the homestead where my Father ROBERT THOMPSON resided at his death the whole tract contained three hundred acres and the part of it here given to MOSES THOMPSON was willed to me by my father, and I refer to the s'd will of my father and the records of Rutherford County for the particulars as to metes & bounds and no. of acres of said land, the other tract or parcel is cedar land and does not adjoin the homestead here given, the cedar land is bounded on the North & west by MOSES THOMPSON'S land, East by ROBERT THOMPSON'S land & South by JAMES McCULLOUGH the two tracts contain about seventy seven acres, But my Brother MOSES THOMPSON is to pay to my Executor one thousand dollars for said land.

Item 3rd As soon after my death as may be desired my Executor to sell all my personal property, and I give all my personal property proceeds, with all the personal estate and effects of every kind and description that I die possessed share and share alike to my Brother ROBERT THOMPSON, my Brother MOSES THOMPSON, to my sister ANNA JONES, and the three children of my deceased sister to wit, POLLY MAYBERRY THOMPSON BROWN and NANCY MOORE they taking the share their deceased mother would have taken were she living.

Item 4th - I hereby appoint ROBERT F. JONES my Executor of this my last will and testament this 16th day of June 1884

Interlined in 3rd Item before signed

MARY THOMPSON

Witnesses:
SMITH PARKS
W. H. WATSON

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